Swedish–English dictionary

betäcka

(transitive) To provide an alibi for (someone); to provide excuses or apologia for (someone); to carry water for someone.

betagen

In love, amorous.

betala

To pay or discharge (a debt, expense etc.); to meet (the cost of something).

betala ut

(finance) To pay out, expend; usually from a public fund or treasury.

betalare

One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.

betalningsinställelse

(finance) The condition of failing to meet an obligation.

betalningsmedel

A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.

betalningspåminnelse

(finance) Writing that reminds of open payments.

betalväg

(chiefly, US) A toll road, especially a toll expressway.

betänka

(intransitive) To think about something seriously or carefully: to deliberate.

betänklighet

A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc. [from 16th c.]

bete

(intransitive, mathematics, construed with on or upon, of an algebraic structure) To possess an action onto (some other structure). Examples include the group action of a group on a set, the action of a ring on a module by scalar multiplication, and the action of a group or algebra on a vector space via a representation.

beteckna

(ditransitive) To give a label to (someone or something) in order to categorise that person or thing.

beteckning

(countable) That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals.

beteende

(countable, uncountable) The way a living creature behaves or acts generally.

beteshage

Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.

betesmark

Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.

beting

Work to be done, obligation.

betinga

To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.

betingad

Limited by a condition.

betingelse

In education, a course or topic that must be completed before another course or topic can be started. May be colloquially referred to as a prereq.

betingning

The process of modifying a person or animal's behaviour.

betitla

To give a title to a book, film, play, etc.

betitlad

(literally) Having a title.

betjäna

(transitive) To wait upon (someone) at table; to set food and drink in front of, to help (someone) to food, meals etc. [from 13th c.]

betjänt

The chief male servant of a household who has charge of other employees, receives guests, directs the serving of meals, and performs various personal services.

betona

(transitive) To mark emphatically; to emphasize; to accentuate; to make prominent.

betonad

(phonetics) Having a stress or accent.

betong

(not comparable) Made of concrete (building material).

beträffa

(intransitive) To relate to, concern, or be relevant to.

beträffande

(transitive, usually in present tense) To regard or specifically pertain to.

betrakta

To look at or see (someone or something), especially appreciatively; to descry, to look upon.

betraktande

The act of looking forward to a future event

betraktare

Someone who observes or beholds; an observer or spectator.

betraktelse

Religious discourse; a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter.

betro

(transitive) To trust to the care of.

bets

A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it.

betsel

(equestrian) The headgear with which a horse is directed and which carries a bit and reins.

bett

A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.

bettlare

A person who begs.

bettleri

The fact or action of begging.

bettlerska

A person who begs.

betuttad

In love, amorous.

betyda

(copulative, informal) To have as consequence, to amount to, to mean.

betydande

Significant; worth considering.

betydelse

(uncountable) Clipping of importance.

betydelsefull

Having relevant and crucial value; having import.

betydelsefullt

Having a noticeable or major effect.

betydelselära

The meanings of individual words, as opposed to the overall meaning of a passage.

betydelselös

Not significant; not important, inconsequential, or having no noticeable effect.

betydelselöshet

the state of being insignificant

betydelsemässig

Of or relating to semantics or the meanings of words. [from late 19th c.]

betydlig

Significant; worth considering.

betydligt

Significantly; to a degree worth considering.

betyg

(chiefly, North America, Philippines) Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.

beundra

(transitive) To regard with wonder and delight.

beundran

A positive emotion including wonder and approbation; the regarding of another as being wonderful

beundransvärd

Deserving of the highest esteem or admiration; estimable.

beundrare

One who admires.

bevaka

To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.

bevakning

Close observation of an individual or group; person or persons under suspicion.

bevandrad

Knowledgeable or skilled, either through study or experience; familiar; practiced.

bevara

(transitive) To protect an environment, heritage, etc.

bevarad

Still in existence; not having disappeared.

bevarande

The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.

bevärdiga

To come down from a superior position and do something; to deign; (with a negative connotation) to stoop.

bevattna

(transitive) To supply (farmland) with water, by building ditches, pipes, etc.

bevattning

The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants.

beveka

(transitive) To make calm.

bevilja

To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.

bevingad

Having wings.

bevis

Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.

bevisa

(transitive) To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.

bevisföremål

(legal) An article formally introduced as evidence in a court.

beviskraftig

(legal) Tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade someone of the truth of an allegation.

bevismaterial

(legal) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.

bevisning

(legal) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.

bevuxen

Having large numbers of plants which have become too big, and are hence spoiling the picturesqueness of a garden.

bezoar

A mass, usually of hair or undigested vegetable matter, found in a human or animal's intestines, similar to a hairball.

bh

An item of clothing, usually underwear worn to support the breasts. [from 1920s]

Bhutan

A country in South Asia, in the Himalayas. Official name: Kingdom of Bhutan. Capital: Thimphu.

bi

(informal, proscribed) Any stinging flying insect, especially a wasp.

bi-

Every two; a rate of once every two.

biathlon

(winter sports, uncountable) Racing combining cross-country skiing and rifle shooting; (countable) a particular instance of such a race.

bibehålla

To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.). [from 14th c.]

bibel

The Jewish holy book that was largely incorporated into the Christian Bible.

Bibeln

The Jewish holy book that was largely incorporated into the Christian Bible.

bibetydelse

(semantics) A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.

bibliofil

One who loves books.

bibliografi

A section of a written work containing citations, not quotations, to all the books referred to in the work.

bibliotek

A collection of books or other forms of stored information.

bibröd

Bee pollen with added honey and bee secretions, made and stored in brood cells by forager bees, and used as food for worker bees and larvae.

bida

(intransitive, archaic, or, dialectal) To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain.

bidé

A low-mounted plumbing fixture or type of sink intended for washing the external genitalia and the anus.

bidra

(ambitransitive) To give something that is or becomes part of a larger whole.

bidrag

(insurance) A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme.

bidraga

(ambitransitive) To give something that is or becomes part of a larger whole.

biennal

A biennial celebration or exhibition

bifall

The act of applauding; approbation and praise publicly expressed by the clapping of hands, stamping or tapping of the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation.

bifalla

(Should we move, merge or split(+) this sense?) (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from etymology 1 above.)

biff

(informal, uncountable) Imagery of one or more muscular, well-built men.

biff stroganoff

A dish of sautéed pieces of beef (or a substitute) served in a sauce with sour cream.

biffig

Characterized by brawn; muscular, thewy; strong.

biffstroganoff

A dish of sautéed pieces of beef (or a substitute) served in a sauce with sour cream.

biflod

(hydrology) A natural water stream that flows into a larger river or other body of water.

bifoga

(transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).

bifogad

Contained; held within a container.

bigami

The state of having two (legal or illegal) spouses simultaneously.

bigarrå

The fruit of the coffee plant, containing the seeds or beans.

bigender

Having two genders simultaneously, most commonly male and female.

Bigfoot

(cryptozoology, folklore) A very large, hairy, humanoid creature, similar to the yeti, said to live in the wilderness areas of the United States and Canada, especially the Pacific Northwest.

bigott

Having the characteristics of a bigot; strongly prejudiced; forming negative opinions about others without just cause.

bigotteri

The condition or the characteristic quality of a bigot, especially religious, anti-religious or racial intolerant prejudice; opinionatedness; fanaticism; fanatic intolerance.

bikaka

(uncountable) A substance made by bees (clade Anthophila) primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells to hold their larvae, and for storing pollen and honey to feed the larvae and themselves when other food is scarce; it is also eaten by humans as part of comb-honey; (countable) a single sheet made up of two layers of this substance.

bikini

A brief bathing suit worn by men.

bikoloni

Such a home prepared by the bees themselves, in which some species of honey bees live and raise their young.

bikt

A formula in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to membership of a church; a confession of faith.

bikta

(religion) To unburden (oneself) of sins to God or a priest, in order to receive absolution.

biktbarn

One under the direction of a confessor.

biktfader

(Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism) A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution.

biktstol

(Roman Catholicism) A small room where confession—the Sacrament of Penance—is performed in private with a priest.

bikupa

Such a home prepared by the bees themselves, in which some species of honey bees live and raise their young.

bil

(US, Canada, Philippines, AU, NZ) A type of motor vehicle designed to move on the ground under its own stored power and intended to carry a driver, a small number of additional passengers, and a very limited amount of other load.

bil-

(biology) Relating to the ability to move.

bilaga

An addition, an extension.

bilägga

(transitive, legal) To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated.

bild

A mental picture of something not real or not present.

bildad

Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated.

bilddyrkan

(religion) The worship of idols.

bildformning

(countable) More generally (since modernism), a three-dimensional work of art of any material or of mixed materials, whether sculpted, assembled, found, constructed or created using multiple techniques.

bildhuggare

A person who sculpts; an artist who produces sculpture.

Bildhuggaren

(constellation) A dim spring constellation of the southern sky. It lies between Aquarius and Phoenix and lies in the direction of the southern pole of the Milky Way.

bildhuggarkonst

(countable) More generally (since modernism), a three-dimensional work of art of any material or of mixed materials, whether sculpted, assembled, found, constructed or created using multiple techniques.

bildhuggeri

(countable) More generally (since modernism), a three-dimensional work of art of any material or of mixed materials, whether sculpted, assembled, found, constructed or created using multiple techniques.

bildkomposition

(painting, photography) The arrangement and flow of elements in a picture.

bildläsare

A device which scans documents in order to convert them to a digital medium. [from 20th c.]

bildlig

Pertaining to or characterized by a metaphor; figurative; symbolic.

bildligt

(manner) In a figurative manner.

bildmässigt

By means of sight.

bildning

Profound knowledge acquired from learning and scholarship.

bildpunkt

One of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory.

bildruta

A piece of photographic film containing an image.

bildskärm

(computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.

bildspråk

Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.

bilism

The act of operating a motorized vehicle; especially, driving a car (motorcar).

bilist

(dated) One who drives an automobile.

biljard

(games, British) A two-player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized table.

biljardkö

(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A straight tapering stick used to hit the balls in various games.

biljett

A citation for a traffic violation.

biljettförsäljare (illegal)

Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.